Matree concepts
Added 2018-08-05 21:12:49 +0000 UTCL: Last days we were thinking about matree alot. As you already know, Grimm love the Ancient Egypt, so we used it as a base for El-Balyama, but we had no idea how to make it more authentic. We tried to blend it with Moderne or Art-Nouveau, though it doesn't make any sense (stylisticly it's just a tautology).
Surprisingly, but we were inspired by the Dark Tower world and Mad Max's setting (because we're reading the last book from DT cycle and playing Mad Max at the same time).
So we added something, that Grimm calls "luxury trash culture".
El-Balyama is rich, enlightened country, but matree are exposed to desease more than any other sahash. They suffers from eczema and eye deseases (using poisonous paint complicate the situation), have a lot of dental problems, most of them are infertile, so they use phurra women or men to breed (yes, hating them). Elbalyamian architecture, also prose and poetry are legendary perfect, but their applied arts, despite of using precious metals, looks solemnly and sick at the same time.
But there are beatiful and healthy matree too, and people thinks that they are Nomes favorites. Like Kinlek or Neith, Scarecrow's character.
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We have to work on this concept more, but I'm so glad that we found the right way finally.
